FLLL 2 Preface This is a printed collection of the contents of the lecture " Genetic Algorithms: Theory and Applications " which I gave first in the winter semester 1999/2000 at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz. The reader should be aware that this manuscript is subject to further reconsideration and improvement. Corrections, complaints, and suggestions are cordially welcome. The sources ...

Figure 5: Data modeling from the real world to a database, and from there to digital cartographic models and analogue products for visualization.. Figure 20: Sample (a) region, (b) its binary array, (c) its maximal blocks, and (d) the corresponding quadtree (after SAMET 1990a). IX he first textbook on GIS was published in 1986. Today, we can find dozens of books dealing with GIS. Yet, it is dif...

These notes record the lectures on Lebesgue integration, which is a topic not covered in the textbook. It is largely inspired by the approach of Leon Simon when he previously taught this course. (All mistakes are my own of course!) The notes will be posted after each lecture. Any comments or corrections, even very minor ones, are very much appreciated! Our goal is to define the notion of Lebesg...

This paper presents a seminal work in preparing lecture notes in epistemology of computer science and computer ethics through an open source personal wiki system engine. Our course of epistemology of computer science and computer ethics aims at making graduate students think about the fundamentals of the discipline as a science and as a profession, so we encourage a 'learning by doing' approach...

These are lecture notes for the seminar ELEN E9801 Topics in Signal Processing: “Advanced Probabilistic Machine Learning” taught at Columbia University in Fall 2014. They are transcribed almost verbatim from the handwritten lecture notes, and so they preserve the original bulleted structure and are light on the exposition. Some lectures therefore also have a certain amount of reiterating in the...

The present study explored the effects of lecture fluency on students’ metacognitive awareness and regulation. Participants watched one of two short videos of an instructor explaining a scientific concept. In the fluent video, the instructor stood upright, maintained eye contact, and spoke fluidly without notes. In the disfluent video, the instructor slumped, looked away, and spoke haltingly wi...

The present study explored the effects of lecture fluency on students' metacognitive awareness and regulation. Participants watched one of two short videos of an instructor explaining a scientific concept. In the fluent video, the instructor stood upright, maintained eye contact, and spoke fluidly without notes. In the disfluent video, the instructor slumped, looked away, and spoke haltingly wi...

This set of lecture notes presents a pedantic derivation of the connection between the Â-genus of spacetime’s loop space and the genus one partition function of the N = 1/2 sigma model. It concludes with some remarks on possible generalizations of the Âgenus which follow naturally from the ‘stringy’ point-of-view but have yet to be explored mathematically. This set of lecture notes is geared to...